Dear Jan!
I didn't know how to reach you until the amazing Mike Godwin tracked you and so many others down, and Jerald and all the Winedale celebrants of late brought us togheter in this email chain. And now I have more than just a reply of gratitude to this lovely message to impart to you, and the rest.
A couple of years ago Doc recommended me to an editor asking who might write an essay about the early years of Shakespeare at Winedale for the second volume of an anthology about life a the university over the years. (I'm not sure when UT Press is publishing it but am guessing next year.) With the help of a few Winedale friends I'm still in touch with regularly, and through memories and talking to Doc, I wrote that essay. You appear in it, Jan, and so does everyone else from that era in letter or spirit.
All this reminiscing has made me bold enough to send it out to all of you as my own collection of reminiscences and latter-day insights. Feel not an iota of pressure to read or respond, but if you do read it, I hope it connects you to the source from which it was written, the profound love of the literature, hard work, and community that forged the experience we all shared.
Love, Alice
From: Jan Notzon jan@jannotzon.com Reply-To: jan@jannotzon.com Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:13:15 -0400 To: Terry Galloway tlgalloway@aol.com Cc: Rob Lallier rob.lallier@dshs.state.tx.us, "William B. Steele" wsteele@lockelord.com, Shakespeare at Winedale 1970-2000 alums winedale-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Winedale-l] pictures 1975-76
Terry, et. al.: I remember Doc talking about that production of Much Ado. He seemed to really feel that that production was one of the highlights of the Summer Winedale Canon. Not just for that year but up to that time. I'm really sorry I missed it. And the more I get these emails, and especially the pictures, I'm really coming to realize how much I miss that extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime experience; how much I miss the people; and how much I miss the indescribable MAGIC. I don't think there's anything that can really compare with it. And Terry, I miss you most of all ("Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world"). I do hope you're well, and I can't wait to see you ("you whoreson, obscene greasy tallowcatch!"). Love,
Jan
I am in transit with only my iPhone to communicate but wanted to send my love to everyone and confirm that it was indeed Dogberry giving that horse the cold eye. And yes Michael I do believe you were atop that bit of criminal horseflesh
We all look so wonderfully alive in those pictures. Thank you sweet Laura for capturing those moments.
More later! Love Terry
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:41 PM, David S dpsharpeaustin@gmail.com wrote:
My favorite image of the many wonderful images from 75&76 was the hilarious picture of Terry Galloway, dressed up like a Keystone Cop (with caterpillars for eye brows), staring fixedly into the eyes of a horse. Not sure who she is suppose to be, but my guess is that she's playing Dogberry -- because only Dogberry would give a horse the evil eye and suspect it of being a varlet.
David Sharpe
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jan Notzon jan@jannotzon.com wrote: Oh, Lord, Lord, looking at these is "such sweet sorrow", that particularly looking at sweet, good-hearted, Donald, "an uncouth pain torments my grievèd soul". But thank you, Jerald and thank you, Laura (though I never met you). They are wonderful, magical pictures. They ache, they ache.
Dear Alums. I had the wonderful pleasure of spending some time last week in a
mini
reunion with my fellow classmates of the class of 75-76, Laura
Smith, Rob
Lallier,Carol Martin, her hubby Sam, and Buddy Steele and his wife
Maggie
at Laura's home. We had a special evening reminiscing about our
time in
1975 at Winedale, how it changed our lives, and despite
protestations in
previous discussions, how we feel was the best class in 40 years,
(but we
can put this aside for the moment.) Laura, (who is now a VP of UTMB, sorry Laura, I am still impressed,) was our resident photographer
as well
as a delightful comic actress and dear friend. She had access to a darkroom above the office across the road from the barn and what
is now
the ruins of Lauderdale House. She saved all of these images for
35 years
and presented a disc of them for all of us to enjoy. These photos
are
iconic of our time there. There are certain pictures which are
burned
into my memory still 35 years later, and we were all immediately transported back to such a wonderful time with friends I hope to
see in
August. And my God, what a young and good-looking group of
students. What
happened? I am the worst with computers, so my partner Sergio helped me put
them
into an album which I hope we all can share, especially the
classes of
'75 and '76, but also for all those classes who followed as well.
Not
only do they capture he essence of our time there, but they are
also just
great photos I think everyone can enjoy. This is the link to the Mobile Me album. (There is a shot of a
much later
single photo which I could not figure out how to delete. Please
ignore. As
I said I am challenged.) Thanks so much to Laura for preserving this for us all.
http://gallery.me.com/jlhead1952#gallery
I hope you all can access it and enjoy. Jerald _______________________________________________ Winedale-l mailing list Winedale-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/winedale-l
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